Chapter Summaries

Lu Yuan used the Red Dust Threads to age the Lin Family Old Ancestor to death, ending the Lin Clan’s strongest defense. Worn down and unwilling to risk a battle with the clan or ignite a conflict between humans and beasts, Lu Yuan escaped before the Lin Clan’s protective array closed.

• The Lin Family Old Ancestor dismissed Lu Yuan’s Red Dust Threads and attacked him with a Spatial Blade, while the remaining Lin Clan Supremes fled the spreading spatial damage.
• The Red Dust Threads accelerated, bypassed the Old Ancestor’s defenses, and made his Spatial Blade pass harmlessly through them.
• The threads drained the Old Ancestor’s cultivation and lifespan, reducing him to a Three Small Tribulations Supreme before he died and blood rain fell over the city.
• Lu Yuan decided not to fight the remaining Lin Clan Supremes, citing his depleted strength and the risk of worsening tensions between humans and beasts.
• Lu Yuan tore through space and escaped the Lin Clan’s territory before its Clan Protecting Grand Array closed.

After losing its Earth Supreme ancestor and most of its Supremes, the Lin Clan was forced to negotiate with its former subordinate families, which seized control of cities and resources while sparing Lin City. Lu Yuan resolved to lead Nine-tailed Fox Clan elites against the Lin Family once he recovered from his injuries.

• The Lin Clan's weakened state emboldened its subordinate families to unite and demand a share of its territory and resources.
• The Lin Clan chose negotiations over abandoning its resource base, and the subordinate families demanded autonomy over cities and control of surrounding resources.
• The subordinate families divided the Lin Clan's territory but left Lin City under its control, sharply limiting the clan's ability to recover.
• Lu Yuan reviewed intelligence about the Lin Family and declared that the mortal enmity required him to destroy it.
• Hu Qi Qi supported Lu Yuan's plan to lead Nine-tailed Fox Clan elites against the Lin Family after he recovered.

Human factions arrived at the Lin Clan under the pretense of offering condolences, but learned that the Nine-tailed Fox Clan’s threat had turned the struggle for the Eastern Continent into a crisis for humanity. The factions tentatively agreed to seek their ancestors’ help and bar Lu Yuan from the continent if he came.

• Overlord-level human factions sent representatives to the Eastern Continent, where they planned to divide the Lin Clan’s holdings while preserving the balance among regions.
• At the Lin Clan’s Reception Hall, representatives realized that letting the Nine-tailed Fox Clan destroy the Lin Clan could brand them traitors to humanity and force them into conflict with the Beast Race.
• The White-Haired Old Man proposed recruiting Lu Yuan, but the Short-Haired Youth argued that Lu Yuan’s loyalty to the Nine-tailed Fox Clan made recruitment impossible.
• The Full-Figured Mature Woman warned that the factions would have to choose between defending humanity and becoming the Beast Race’s lackeys.
• The White-Haired Old Man urged the factions to hold their positions, investigate the situation, and ask their ancestors to help defeat Lu Yuan; several representatives agreed to bar Lu Yuan from the Eastern Continent.

The Earth Supreme ancestors of several hegemonic forces secretly discussed how to exploit Lu Yuan’s apparent weakness and seize an opportunity from him after he killed the Lin Family Old Ancestor. They considered joining forces to ambush him if he retaliated against the Lin Family, while guarding against betrayal among their own allies.

• The chapter explained that an Earth Supreme’s destructive ambitions could draw a Heavenly Sovereign’s attention, while a Heavenly Sovereign threatening the Myriad Heavens could trigger a response from the Five Ancient Clans and other forces.
• The chapter described the strength and numbers of the human race’s Heavenly Sovereigns, including those of the Floating Tu Ancient Clan and the Myriad Heavens Palace.
• Representatives of the hegemonic forces weighed the risks of dealing with the aftermath of Lu Yuan’s attack, while their Earth Supreme ancestors focused on obtaining a breakthrough opportunity from him.
• The Earth Supreme ancestors concluded that Lu Yuan’s ultimate move had burdened him and that he had escaped because the Lin Family Supremes failed to stop him.
• The ancestors secretly discussed gathering forces to ambush Lu Yuan if he led the Nine-tailed Fox Clan against the Lin Family.
• The Earth Supremes planned to guard against allies betraying them, since Lu Yuan’s killing move might also defeat them.

Lu Yuan used the Eye of Fate to foresee an ambush planned by more than a dozen Earth Supremes and began recording intelligence to help the Nine-tailed Fox Clan seize control of human territories. Meanwhile, Hu Qi Qi arranged for Lin Yi to serve Lu Yuan, hoping she would grow stronger and gain a secure position in the clan.

• More than a dozen Earth Supremes secretly traveled toward the Lin Family stronghold to ambush Lu Yuan, believing no one could discover their plan.
• The Eye of Fate showed Lu Yuan the attackers, their moves, and how he could defeat them, so he prepared to eliminate their forces and recorded information about them.
• The Nine-tailed Fox Clan assigned Lin Yi to serve as Lu Yuan's maid after he refused other offers of companionship.
• Hu Qi Qi intended for Lin Yi to learn from Lu Yuan and eventually succeed the clan's First Elder, giving her influence and a fallback if the clan faced disaster.
• Hu Jiu Jiu did not object to Hu Qi Qi's plans and privately wished she could leave clan leadership to travel with Yao Chen.

Lin Yi read Lu Yuan’s intelligence on powerful Crimson Continent factions, and the Nine-tailed Fox Clan feared the overwhelming force arrayed against them. Lu Yuan explained that the factions planned to ambush them on their way to destroy the Lin Family, leaving the clan to face the coming threat.

• Lin Yi read reports listing the strength and abilities of four major Crimson Continent factions, including their Earth Supremes and thousands of Three Heaven Realm experts.
• Lu Yuan spread the remaining reports across the table, and the Nine-tailed Fox Clan’s leaders read them and worried about the imbalance in strength.
• Hu Jiu Jiu asked whether the factions intended to make enemies of the Nine-tailed Fox Clan and why.
• Lu Yuan explained that the Lin Family’s Earth Supreme had died, allowing the factions to invoke racial righteousness as an excuse to ambush the group and eliminate them.
• The elders understood that the factions wanted to seize the Lin Family’s holdings and resources before killing Lu Yuan, while the Lin Family could later seek revenge against the Nine-tailed Fox Clan.

Lu Yuan and the Nine-tailed Fox Clan's elders discussed how to respond to the forces preparing an ambush, and Lu Yuan revealed that he planned to fight them before leaving for several centuries. He argued that a decisive victory would protect the clan in his absence, and the chapter ended with him urging them to prepare for a battle they had almost no chance of winning.

• The Fourth Elder proposed that the Nine-tailed Fox Clan avoid attacking the Lin Family and use any enemy invasion to accuse the human forces of provoking conflict between the races.
• The First Elder supported the idea but warned that the Lin Family might seek revenge later, and he inferred that Lu Yuan intended to fight.
• Lu Yuan confirmed that he wanted to fight the forces backed by Earth Supremes for the benefits their defeat could bring, then disclosed that he planned to leave for several centuries.
• Lu Yuan explained that the Nine-tailed Fox Clan needed a major victory to deter attacks while he was away, and he hoped to leave resources and a reliable inheritance plan for the clan and Xiao Yan.
• Lu Yuan told the elders that the coming battle offered almost no chance of victory but was necessary to secure the Nine-tailed Fox Clan's future.

Lu Yuan rejected avoiding battle and argued that the Nine-tailed Fox Clan had to face the allied factions directly to end the threat for good. He proposed a decisive confrontation and claimed he could handle more than a dozen Earth Supremes, restoring the elders’ confidence.

• Lu Yuan explained why he had been forced to rescue Hu Qi Qi and why the war with the Lin Family’s allies could no longer be avoided.
• The Fifth Elder proposed letting the enemy enter their territory so the Nine-tailed Fox Clan could exploit familiar terrain and identify unreliable factions.
• Hu Qi Qi warned that the plan risked catastrophic losses and described how the allied factions could divide their forces to counter Lu Yuan.
• The First Elder proposed a counterattack against enemy strongholds, but the Seventh Elder argued that the Human Race’s cities could trap the clan and force a direct battle.
• Lu Yuan proposed confronting the allied factions head-on to destroy them and test which subsidiary families truly supported the Nine-tailed Fox Clan.
• Hu Jiu Jiu asked whether Lu Yuan could defeat more than a dozen Earth Supremes, and he said he was confident.

Hu Jiu Jiu, Hu Qi Qi, and Lu Yuan refined the Nine-tailed Fox Clan’s plans for facing more than a dozen major factions, discussing their shortage of troops and Spirit Array expertise. Lu Yuan intended to use the overwhelming crisis to test the subordinate families and build lasting loyalty through a series of victories.

• Hu Jiu Jiu called for confirming the number and average strength of troops needed for each battlefield.
• The Sixth Elder explained that the enemy factions could field better-trained and stronger Spirit Array formations, while the Nine-tailed Fox Clan lacked both people and cultivation strength.
• Hu Qi Qi suggested using small squads to divide the battlefield before the enemy could activate its arrays, though the clan might not have enough experts to succeed.
• Lu Yuan said he planned to let the subordinate families choose whether to stand with the Nine-tailed Fox Clan against the invading factions.
• Hu Qi Qi warned that the families, which had submitted only a month earlier, would likely abandon the clan under such hopeless odds.
• Lu Yuan declared that repeated victories would make allies believe the Nine-tailed Fox Clan was invincible and ensure that some would stand with it in future crises.

The Nine-tailed Fox Clan learned that nearly all its subordinate families had abandoned it rather than fight more than a dozen hegemonic forces, leaving only five families willing to stand with Lu Yuan. Before addressing the gathered troops, Lu Yuan told the First Elder to remember those five families, promising they would revere the clan after the battle.

• The Nine-tailed Fox Clan revealed to its subordinate families that it planned to fight the Crimson Moon Dynasty, the Shi Family, the Zhen Family, the Jialan Immortal Sect, and their allies, prompting nearly all the families to withdraw or make excuses.
• The First Elder recalled unmarried clan women who were searching for partners and arranged support for women who had already married out, while Hu Qi Qi remained among those who could not be recalled.
• Five subordinate families came in person to support the Nine-tailed Fox Clan, though only one was near first-rate and the others were weak or destitute.
• Lu Yuan told the First Elder to remember the five families, saying they would regard the Nine-tailed Fox Clan as gods after the battle.
• The First Elder silently nodded before Lu Yuan went to deliver the expedition speech.

Lu Yuan gave the women tied to the Nine-tailed Fox Clan through marriage alliances the chance to leave before the clan faced a powerful enemy, and most took it. The chiefs of the five allied clans saw those who stayed as the people Lu Yuan could trust, and their confidence in his future grew.

• Lu Yuan addressed the gathered clans and offered the marriage-alliance women ten minutes to leave, voiding their Marriage Contracts if they chose to go.
• Most of the marriage-alliance women left the Nine-tailed Fox Clan's camp, while a smaller group remained.
• The Heavenly Howler Clan chief and Seven Feather Phoenix Clan chief interpreted the departures as evidence of Lu Yuan's confidence and considered his potential as a future Heavenly Sovereign.
• The five allied clan chiefs viewed their support as a chance to bind their promising youths to Lu Yuan and secure his favor.
• The Thunder Flame Rabbit Clan chief lamented that her clan's women had not been offered the marriage alliances, and the Seven Feather Phoenix Clan chief joked that the departures gave them an opportunity.

Lu Yuan addressed the Nine-tailed Fox Clan and its allies before a desperate battle, urging them to learn from broken engagements and honor the trust of those who stood by them. He revealed that more than a dozen ancient powers with Earth Supremes had joined forces against them, then called on everyone to help him overcome the odds.

• Lu Yuan let the Nine-tailed Fox Clan's marriage-alliance women choose whether to leave, then counseled the abandoned youths and those whose partners had stayed.
• Lu Yuan told the five allied clans that the Nine-tailed Fox Clan would honor true friends, but refused to answer their show of loyalty with empty promises.
• Lu Yuan warned the gathered fighters that the coming battle would be brutal, uncertain, and fought from a position of overwhelming disadvantage.
• Lu Yuan explained that he had killed more than thirty Supremes, including the Lin Family's Earth Supreme, during his visit to the Eastern Continent.
• Lu Yuan revealed that more than a dozen ancient great powers with Earth Supremes had joined forces against him and his allies.
• Lu Yuan recalled turning past impossibilities into victories and urged the gathered clans to help him do so again.

Lu Yuan reached a concealed surveillance bunker near Lin City, where he confronted two sentries assigned to detect the Nine-tailed Fox Clan. He spared the pair by disabling their spiritual power and imprisoning them, continuing his approach toward the city as the major powers prepared to encircle his clan.

• A middle-aged sentry explained to his nephew that the Crimson Moon imperial family and other major powers had ordered the Nine-tailed Fox Clan's extermination and positioned spies and forces around the cities.
• The sentries discussed how the surveillance network would expose an invasion and bring more than a dozen Earth Supremes and over a hundred Supremes against the Nine-tailed Fox Clan.
• Lu Yuan appeared inside their bunker without triggering its warning formations, and the young sentry mistook him for someone arriving to relieve them.
• The middle-aged sentry recognized Lu Yuan as an intruder and asked him for a chance to live.
• Lu Yuan altered the formations, scattered both sentries' Qi Seas, and carried them to a makeshift prison near Lin City.

Lu Yuan explained how initiative, attrition, and exchanging pieces shaped battles, then led the Nine-tailed Fox Clan and the other Five Great Clans to Lin City after clearing the surrounding cities. He exposed the enemy’s failures in security and information warfare, and the forces prepared to attack the city where the Earth Supremes were stationed.

• Lu Yuan described how armies could use arrays and coordinated sacrifices to trade weaker forces for valuable enemy experts.
• Lu Yuan led the Nine-tailed Fox Clan and the other Five Great Clans to Lin City after spending half a month clearing the other cities belonging to the Lin Family.
• Lu Yuan explained how the enemy’s reliance on spies, inadequate communications, and lack of scouting had let his forces isolate and defeat the garrisons.
• Hu Jiu Jiu, Hu Qi Qi, the First Elder, and the other clan chiefs acknowledged the lessons of Lu Yuan’s information warfare tactics.
• Lu Yuan faced Lin City with his forces ready, declaring that the decisive battle remained.

Lu Yuan opened the battle for Lin City by confronting fifteen Earth Supremes alone while Hu Jiu Jiu and the others prepared to handle the remaining forces. He unleashed the red threads that had killed the Lin Family Old Ancestor, and the Earth Supremes began aging into ash.

• Lu Yuan reiterated three rules for the battle: his forces could not commit crimes against civilians, could not feed on blood, and could accept surrenders under strict conditions.
• Lu Yuan opened a hundred-mile Spatial Rift above Lin City, alerting its residents and the Earth Supremes gathered there.
• Fifteen Earth Supremes appeared and faced Lu Yuan alone, while the Lin Family Supremes watched with conflicted feelings.
• Lu Yuan sent waves of bloody red threads across the Earth Supremes, causing those they touched to rapidly age into dry bones and ash.

Lu Yuan killed fifteen Earth Supremes with the Red Dust Threads, shattering the confidence of the forces gathered in Lin City and prompting the Five Great Clans and Nine-tailed Fox Clan to attack. The battle above Lin City began as the defeated factions made a desperate attempt to break out.

• Lu Yuan’s Red Dust Threads reduced the fifteen Earth Supremes to ash, leaving no souls behind.
• The cultivators in Lin City were stunned by Lu Yuan’s victory, while the patriarchs of the Five Great Clans recognized that his Secret Technique had killed the Earth Supremes.
• Lu Yuan demanded that the city’s cultivators surrender or die, and the Five Great Clans saw the defeated factions’ resources as a chance to rise in power.
• Dozens of Supremes launched breakout attacks, and the patriarchs and elders of the Five Great Clans countered them without waiting for Hu Jiu Jiu’s command.
• Hu Jiu Jiu and the Nine-tailed Fox Clan’s upper ranks joined the fight, while Hu Qi Qi stayed behind to command the battlefield.
• A battle involving over a hundred Supremes and experts at the Three Small Tribulations erupted above Lin City as the desperate defenders fought the advancing clans.

Lu Yuan let the Five Great Clans fight for a share of the spoils while the defeated factions’ Supremes and disciples fled, and he considered how the Nine-tailed Fox Clan could take control of the Crimson Continent. He planned to prevent the fleeing leaders from regrouping, use local forces as rulers, and eventually move Demon Saint Valley to the continent.

• Lu Yuan rested and let the Five Great Clans battle, reserving five percent of the spoils for them and dividing it according to their contributions.
• The defeated factions’ disciples fled after their Earth Supreme Ancestors died, while the surviving Supremes’ allies considered warning their leaders and activating their backup plans.
• Lu Yuan resolved not to let the remaining major figures escape and prepare a response to the Nine-tailed Fox Clan’s victory.
• Lu Yuan assessed possible ways to control the Crimson Moon Dynasty and other factions, including installing a new imperial family or forcing surrender.
• Lu Yuan decided to satisfy the Nine-tailed Fox Clan’s needs first, select local puppets to rule parts of the Crimson Continent, and eventually relocate Demon Saint Valley there.

After taking Lin City, Lu Yuan left the Lin Family’s internal disputes to Hu Qi Qi and Lin Yi while imposing a policy of appeasement and selective purges. He led the Nine-tailed Fox Clan and the Five Great Clans through a campaign that brought the Crimson Continent under their control, leaving its unification barely complete.

• Lu Yuan let Hu Qi Qi and Lin Yi decide how to handle the Lin Family and left Hu Jiu Jiu free to advise them.
• Lu Yuan ordered leniency for factions and people willing to submit, while preparing to eliminate those who resisted.
• Lu Yuan led the Five Great Clans and Nine-tailed Fox Clan recruits to seize territory from factions that had lost their Earth Supremes, dividing the spoils according to the clans’ contributions.
• Lu Yuan gave factions in the Five Great Clans’ assigned territories a day to leave or face destruction, while allowing selected minor groups and civilians to remain.
• Lu Yuan spent more than two months leading the Nine-tailed Fox Clan and Five Great Clans in taking control of the Crimson Continent’s foundation.

Lu Yuan considered the political consequences of the Nine-tailed Fox Clan’s fragile unification of the Crimson Continent as new Earth Supremes sent him Challenge Letters. He left the courtyard still weighing whether to kill them and risk widespread upheaval or spare them and endanger the Nine-tailed Fox Clan.

• Lu Yuan complained to Lin Yi about Earth Supremes who sent him Challenge Letters despite his having killed more than a dozen of their peers.
• Lu Yuan reflected that the Nine-tailed Fox Clan could not safely absorb the territories of slain Earth Supremes, so their deaths could unleash battles that killed millions.
• The Nine-tailed Fox Clan continued consolidating the Crimson Continent, while the First Elder and four other elders began their breakthroughs to Supreme.
• Lu Yuan considered whether to use the Eye of Fate and concluded he could not capture an Earth Supreme alive without risking a fatal counterattack.
• Lu Yuan walked out of the courtyard, looked toward Demon Saint Valley and the busy Nine-tailed Fox Clan, and decided that if forced to choose, he would protect his clan rather than intervene in the coming upheaval.

The Seventh Elder and a young Nine-tailed Fox Clan scout discussed how Lu Yuan’s deterrence had contained unrest at the Crimson Continent’s borders while Earth Supreme deaths fueled violence elsewhere. As she organized the clan’s growing Library Pavilion, she reflected on why Lu Yuan had fought to preserve the clan’s position and noted that one more death would bring the tally to forty.

• A young scout brought the Seventh Elder news of another Earth Supreme’s death and helped her sort the Library Pavilion’s books.
• The scout reported that Lu Yuan’s deterrence had kept turmoil near the Crimson Continent’s borders, while factions elsewhere were killing rivals and civilians.
• The Seventh Elder reflected that Lu Yuan’s decisive actions had been necessary to save the Nine-tailed Fox Clan from the Giant Spirit Eagle Clan, the Lin Family, and other hostile factions.
• The Seventh Elder considered the clan’s collection of inherited cultivation arts and the work required to record them, much of which was being reviewed or transmitted by surrendered factions’ leaders and disciples.
• The Seventh Elder counted the latest death and said that one more would bring the number of dead Earth Supremes to forty.